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Keir Starmer promises 'decade of renewal' at Labour conference

Keir Starmer’s speech at the Labour conference set out a vision for what the party would do differently after 13 years of Conservative government.
Keir Starmer delivering the keynote speech at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on 10 October 2023 Screengrab: YouTube, Labour
Keir Starmer delivering the keynote speech at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on 10 October 2023 Screengrab: YouTube, Labour

The Labour leader delivered his speech in his shirt sleeves after a protester leapt on the stage and sprinkled his jacket with glitter, shortly after he started speaking.

Starmer promised voters ‘a decade of national renewal’ and appealed to Tory voters, offering them a vision of how a Labour government would do things differently.

He described meeting a single mum in a café in Worthing, shortly after returning from a holiday with his family in the Lake District, who talked about how she was living in ‘survival mode’ and the impact of the cost of living crisis.

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